Larger — and messier — than life actor Gérard Depardieu has reportedly moved to Belgium to avoid paying French taxes, which risks turning the movie hero into a real-life heel in financially-stricken France.

London Olympic Organizing Committee Chief reveals how Cherie Blair’s infuriated reaction to French President Jacques Chirac’s slight of British food may have helped London win its 2012 Summer Games bid

An new poll indicates nearly a quarter of all French people bathe every other day–or even once per week. Though the minority, those grubby few may suffice to reinforce Anglo-American stereotypes of an ill-scrubbed France.

With her politically disastrous Twitter swipe at her partner’s ex- scarcely behind her, French First Lady Valérie Trierweiler risks possible diplomatic ire from Mexico with a show of support for a French inmate in Mexican prison …